Rose Hooper is a seasoned software engineering manager with over 15 years of professional experience and a lifelong involvement in computing dating back to the 1990s. She leads and mentors cross-functional development and DevOps teams, currently at Lex Machina, and has held senior engineering and executive roles including VP of Engineering and founder of a consulting firm. Rose blends deep systems and infrastructure expertise—from DNS and large-scale log analytics built on Kafka/ELK to HDD I/O optimization—with hands-on contributions to open-source projects like Adafruit's CircuitPython. Her work spans backend systems, observability, and emerging AI/ML and computer vision experiments, reflecting a curiosity that drives both product-grade engineering and community-focused projects. Based in Clarkston, Michigan, she pairs pragmatic technical leadership with a commitment to giving back through mentoring and open-source collaboration.
CircuitPython - a Python implementation for teaching coding with microcontrollers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 commit, 15 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Rose contributed to the CircuitPython project by implementing new features and fixing bugs related to the system's core functionality. The user implemented a `supervisor.reload()` function for soft restarts, which required modifications to the supervisor module, runtime, and exception handling. They also fixed an issue related to timers and improved error messages. Furthermore, the user refactored and renamed variables to enhance code readability.
Contributions:57 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 8 months
raspberry-pipythonmqtthome-automationpython-3
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Rose Hooper - Software Engineering Manager at Lex Machina